The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-09

win harmonize with the enevolent-despotic
federal-democratio, socialistic era which 10
said TO be coming when the blind will lead
the blind. With the loss Of eyesight, tho
eye will Of course gradually disappear. Per-
haps Its place will DO taken by striking
Waterbury watch. In the socialistic PAN
tarchy the regulation Of time 30 that nobody
may do more than his proper stint Of work.
will be most important. BY that time the
solar energy will perhaps have become ex-
tinct, 80 that with absence Of light people
will become blind without knowing 1t. The
reading Of HENRY GEORGES books, printed
In raised letters, will then be the chief amnse-
ment Of the population. Warmth can be got
by burning recalcitrant capitalists who have
refused to come into the universal pan
tarchical antinarchy.
With the gradual loss OF the sense Of sight,
that Of feeling will be proportionately de-
veloped. Indeed, IL seems likely that this
will be the only sense left to the man Of, say,
the eighteen hundredth century. Stock ex-
changes, elevated railways, steam whistles,
music Of the future and the like are gradu-
ally making mankind deaf; yet the devel-
opment OF mechanical yells and soreeches Ia
hardly begun. It will not be loss when
universal deafness sets In. Melodious
sounds can be stored In reservoirs to be
drawn Off as needed. The great bulk Of
sound can DO carried of In pneumatic sew
ers. So acute will be the sense Of feeling
that sound waves can DO transmitted and
understood by the touch. Ears will be shed,
being Of no use.
Taste will have to 60, too, though per-
haps the tongue and palate may not go into
entire disuse. They may be retained for the
purpose Of assisting articulation, although in
the new era everybody VII talk alike and
there will be no necessity Of speech. A
universal sign-volapuk will be sufficient.
Everybody's food being the same, the taste
will cease to discriminate, and will gradually
become extinct. In view Of the alarming
adulteration Of food and drink, the disap-
pearance OF the sense Of taste may prove to
be q good thing.
The nose is doomed, too. A French savant
Of the suspicious name Of LIE BEo declares,
according to the Pull Mall Gazette, that "the
nose Is gradually losing Its power to dis
charge It's traditional function In the case Of
the civilized peoples; and when the sense OF
smell vanishes altogether, as will infallibly
be the case one day, the organ itself Is bound
to follow its example sooner or later" Hun
ter's Point and Barren Island will then be
the seats Of happy because noseless Poo
pie, and the dictionaries Of early and obso-
lete English will duly explain such phrases
as ITO hold ones nose," and As plain as
the nose on your face" Anybody who has
studied antique busts and statues. Is aware
that high degree OF beauty is consistent
with the absence Of nose. As everybody
win be blind, the point Is not however. i'm
portant. Some sentimentalists may insist
that the odor Of flowers Is sufficient to JUS
tify keeping the nose, and doubtless the
nose may survive as an ornament to women |;
but flowers do not work, and have no part
nor place In infinitely regulated socialistic
state. What is tho loss Of noses to the ex-
tinction of catarrh? Universal man must
be simplified that he may be able to bear the
strain of more complex government.
Thus we see that the loss Of the hair and
the teeth Is only small part Of the change
that is to come Man will finally be left
"sans nose. sans eyes, sans ears sans taste. sans
everything
Except the sense Of feeling; but what a
| prospect II this be the possibility OF sci
ence, give US instead the ideal progress
which the poet dreams Of for humanity, and
| the millennial visions of the insured MYSTIC.